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Maintaining Software Excellence in the Age of AI Coding Assistance

In this preview of his AWS re:Invent session, Cortex CTO & Co-Founder Ganesh Datta breaks down how AI coding assistants are transforming software development, and what high-performing teams are doing to keep speed and reliability in balance. You’ll learn: If you care about AI, engineering velocity, or building sustainable systems, this is a must-watch. Full Session: December 3 at 2:30 PM Learn more about Cortex: go.cortex.io/reinvent.

When Bots Grow Brains: RPA and Agentic AI For the Win

For a long time, robotic process automation (RPA) was the fastest way to scale repetitive digital work. Bots copied, clicked, and executed rule-based tasks faster than any human. They reduced error rates and delivered early wins for efficiency. Sounds just fine, right? Prepare for a Matrix moment, because the truth is that IT teams built RPA only for predictability. It could follow instructions, but it couldn’t adapt when something unexpected happened.

.NET Conf 2025 Highlights: Unlocking the Future With .NET 10 and AI Innovations

As the dotConnect team, we are proud to be a sponsor of the.NET Conf 2025. This landmark event highlighted the key advancements of the.NET ecosystem, from major releases to AI-powered tools and inspiring community-driven projects.

Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse: Features, Benefits, and Use Cases

The Fabric Data Warehouse was built to solve one of analytics’ biggest challenges: fragmentation. When data is spread across separate tools for ingestion, modeling, and reporting, teams lose time, accuracy, and visibility. As part of the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem, the Data Warehouse addresses this by unifying every stage of the analytics process into a single, connected environment.

Which Data Connectivity Product to Choose: ODBC, SSIS, Excel, or Python

Data connectivity solutions are the bedrock of a solid database management strategy. Here’s why. Databases rarely work in isolation. They are constantly interacting with various apps and cloud platforms. As such, ensuring that this interaction flows seamlessly is critical. This is where your business data connectivity solution comes in. But here is the problem. There is no one-size-fits-all connectivity solution.

Automating Network Devices with NETCONF and YANG in Puppet Edge

This video offers a practical guide to automating network devices using YANG data models and the NETCONF protocol while using Puppet Edge. Gain the knowledge to streamline your network operations and enhance consistency. Perforce Puppet gives IT operations teams back their time and offers peace of mind with infrastructure automation that enables security and compliance.

The AI Workload Punishes Bad Habits

The AI workload presents the ultimate challenge, highlighting the structural limitations of the traditional hyperscaler model. In this segment from a Civo Navigate London 2025 session, Kelsey Hightower explains exactly why AI adoption forces enterprises to confront flawed architecture and rising astronomical costs. When specialized hardware is scarce and rented GPUs sit idle at a premium, it’s clear that traditional cloud providers were not built for this era. Data that didn't move is forcing organizations to move compute back to where it lives.